The Future Studio team (and company) is based in Germany and due to that fact, we needed to comply the VAT rules of the European Union while launching the Future Studio University. Precisely, because we’re located inside the EU, we need to make sure everyone enrolling from a EU …

If you're using the code obfuscator ProGuard before releasing apps, this will be a valuable tutorial for you. We'll go through a standard ProGuard configuration, which should prevent unexpected runtime exceptions in your apps when you're using ProGuard and Gson. If you're not using ProGuard, you can check our other …

Validating incoming user data is an important piece of your API. Make sure you heavily rely on hapi’s built-in validation features. The hapi core framework works great with the help of a schema validation library, called Joi. Never ever trust input data! On your end, provide helpful error messages …

Following this PM2 series, you’ve already learned how to manage your processes and how to declare an advanced JSON process file for a single or multiple applications. Declaring multiple applications in a single process file is a convenient way to keep your app definitions close together in a selected …

Request validation in hapi is a powerful feature and allows you to define fine-grained validation rules. In the previous tutorial, you put validation rules in place for the API TV show endpoint which returns a list of shows. Failed validations for the page and extend query parameters are handled by …

In a previously published PM2 tutorial, you’ve learned how to start a Node.js process with arguments. In that tutorial, we’ve used the idea to reduce the memory limit of Node.js to let the garbage collector clean up earlier. Well, sometimes you don’t see the forest …

When you’re developing an app professionally, you’re probably dealing with multiple server environments. Your API developers are constantly changing and improving the endpoints the apps consume. If you’ve an excellent backend developer, he’ll provide multiple environments: develop: latest snapshot of the API code staging: next API …